Chandigarh, September 11 – Punjab Deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish a cargo hub at Mohali alongside the international airport. Disclosing this, the Deputy CM’s media advisor Jangveer Singh said Mr Badal gave this suggestion to the PM during the latter’s visitRead More

Chandigarh: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the city on Friday, around 500 Congress workers were taken into preventive custody by police here apprehending the possibility of a “breach of the peace”. Congress workers said they had planned to show black flags to Modi during his visit inRead More

Chandigarh, September 10- In a bid to resolve the prevailing sugarcane crisis in the state, the Punjab Cabinet today approved the report of committee headed by the Chief Secretary regarding the problems of payment of cane arrears to the farmers and ensuring crushing of cane in the ensuing season. ARead More

Chandigarh, September 10: People’s party of Punjab chief Manpreet Singh Badal today stressed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit here tomorrow must announce his government’s framework including special financial assistance to rescue this state from ever deepening crisis. Manpreet said the framework must not include steps only forRead More

* Samples of pesticides being taken across the State Chandigarh, September 10 – Punjab Deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today disclosed that five cases had been registered with regard to spurious pesticides used to control whitefly pest attack on cotton in the Malwa belt of the State in theRead More

Chandigarh, September 10: The Punjab Congress President, Mr Partap Singh Bajwa, today urged the Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi to announce special package for this beleaguered state on the pattern of Bihar during his visit here tomorrow to inaugurate Chandigarh International Airport . He also wanted the Prime Minister toRead More

New Delhi/Chandigarh, September 10 – Punjab Deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today offered management of municipal services in 140 towns of Punjab to investors at the Invest North conclave here. Addressing a galaxy of investors and members of the trade and industry at the conclave organised by CII, MrRead More

Bathinda, At least 35 farmers were injured when a raging bull charged into farmers staging a dharna near the Bathinda District Complex on Thursday. Seventeen of the injured were women. Protesters accused the district administration of deliberately setting the bull on them to disrupt their protest demonstration, aruging that thereRead More

Amritsar, Sep 10 : The supreme temporal body of Sikhs Akal Takht today asked the community living across the globe not to construct new Gurdwaras at home and abroad without obtaining its permission. Akal Takht head Gurbachan Singh also imposed ban on Ragi Balbir Singh for preaching and singing religiousRead More

Chandigarh, September 9: On the orders of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister, the Director General of Police, Punjab has constituted a special team under the supervision of Mr, Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota , IPS, Director, Bureau of Investigation, Punjab to look in to the complaints of cotton farmers regarding alleged supplyRead More